One strong proponent of the "preemptive donor support" program in Pluto argues that since those later-to-be potential donors have irreversible brain insult, there is a ground to act aggressively to facilitate organ donation - for the benefit of the society as a whole - even though there may be a slight price to pay by jeopardizing a slice of benefit of that dying person.
I beg to disagree.
Otherwise we end up agreeing that clinical judgement for individual patient should be based on the overall benefit to the society, and the use of the body of any terminally ill patient for our own purpose. Well, we are the society !
And since it is our judgement to decide what is irreversible damage and terminally ill, it is entirely up to us - or worse, those migrated to Pluto or farther - to say whom we should save or sacrifice for the benefit of the others.
(You may realize it also means that we can say as we like to whoever of our rivals that they have an incurable disease - which would kill them in 200 years if not earlier - and we can take their organs for the benefit of the others. Don't laugh. This dark joke did happen several times in the human version of George Orwell's Animal Farm.)
PS. In my experience of communicating with extra-terrestrials, "for the benefit of the society as a whole" is often a sugar-coated synonym of damaging individual's benefit for the sake of a hidden agenda. After all, society is a collection of individuals.
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If the Pluto really believed "for the benefit of the society as a whole" is more important, I think the first thing they should do is to cut their own salary first, so that HA will have more resource to buy expensive items and drugs for the patients.
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